The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

Anxiety and excitement are the same emotion. The only difference is our attitude toward the experience.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

The five aggregates are not a theoretical model but a description of lived experience to be investigated through mindfulness.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

Nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change. Being is always becoming.

Whatever we do, we should see ourselves. Reading books doesn't show us our defilements. Watch yourself. Watch your mind.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

The difference between being caught in thoughts and being mindful of thoughts is like the difference between being in a movie and watching a movie.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look into your present actions.

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

Compassion is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

Every thought, every word, and every action leaves an imprint on our mind.

Meditation is like catching a fish. If you try to catch it quickly, you'll miss it. If you have patience and know how to wait, the fish will come.

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.

Those who know emptiness, know impermanence. Those who know impermanence, know non-self. Those who know non-self, know peace.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

Through understanding emptiness, one does not become proud of one's virtues, just as one does not become proud of building a castle in the sky.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

All experiences are preceded by mind, led by mind, made by mind. Speak or act with a corrupted mind, and suffering follows as the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox.

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.